[FairfieldLife] Yoga grandma V Nanammal passes away at 99 in Coimbatore

[eustace10679]

A little dated:

 Yoga grandma V Nanammal passes away at 99 in Coimbatore
 

 
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/yoga-grandma-v-nanammal-passes-away-at-99-in-coimbatore-1613179-2019-10-26
 
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/yoga-grandma-v-nanammal-passes-away-at-99-in-coimbatore-1613179-2019-10-26

[FairfieldLife] Yoga 1988 [1 Attachment]

[netineti108]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152235281969756&set=a.10151482275589756&type=3&eid=ARDhg_7Y6TuwEghsVX3DInAoEfIcWBmEfUGASQs0xlfQo_vrzvqEL_jHtTjp1DywrFXN4sneodnnkY4_
 
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 World Book Encyclopedia c.1988

[FairfieldLife] yoga and blood pressure small study

[srijau]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/29/yoga-could-effective-pill-cutting-blood-pressure-study-suggests/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/29/yoga-could-effective-pill-cutting-blood-pressure-study-suggests/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga, Okay

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Yoga posing, therapy different than spiritual practice..
 

 New research finds that a yoga class designed specifically for back pain can 
be as safe and effective as physical therapy in easing pain.

 

 The yoga protocol includes gentle poses and avoids more difficult ones.

 

 ..for your lower back pain, yoga may be a good alternative.

 

 ..gentle poses, including cat-cow, triangle pose and child's pose. Simple 
relaxation techniques are part of the class as well. More difficult poses, such 
as inversions, are avoided.
 

 
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/20/533505211/study-finds-yoga-can-help-back-pain-but-keep-it-gentle-with-these-poses
 
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/20/533505211/study-finds-yoga-can-help-back-pain-but-keep-it-gentle-with-these-poses

 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Hosers

[Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]]

Coming soon:
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/112333/sdcc15-first-look-at-kevin-smith-as-wacky-yoga-hosers-villain/

[FairfieldLife] Yoga, Religion and Schools

[Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Its not TM, but the issues are the same:
Attorneys Square Off in School Yoga Case
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judges Wednesday in an appeals case concerning an Encinitas Union School 
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[FairfieldLife] Yoga as a brand

[aryavazhi]

Government not spending money for promotion of Vedas: Baba Ramdev | Latest News 
& Updates at Daily News & Analysis 
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-government-not-spending-money-for-promotion-of-vedas-baba-ramdev-2063220
 
 
 
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-government-not-spending-money-for-promotion-of-vedas-baba-ramdev-2063220
 
 
 Government not spending money for promotion of Veda... 
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-government-not-spending-money-for-promotion-of-vedas-baba-ramdev-2063220
 Government not spending money for promotion of Vedas: Baba Ramdev - Yoga guru 
Ramdev asked Narendra Modi government on Sunday to "loosen its p...
 
 
 
 View on www.dnaindia.com 
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-government-not-spending-money-for-promotion-of-vedas-baba-ramdev-2063220
 
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About Swami Ramdev: He also lashed out at people and institutions who are 
running yoga centres around the country for commercial benefits. "Yoga is a 
spiritual essence and it should not be marketed as a brand by anyone," 

Well, I hope everyone has heard this.

 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga w Animals

[Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Every human in this video has better sense than superstitious Marshy who always 
said never meditate with animals in the room.
"I don't give a $#@& about your yoga, human!"
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[FairfieldLife] Yoga Camp, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

On 11/4/2014 11:31 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>


One in particular


>
/There is one informant posting to this group who seems to really enjoy 
criticizing our leaders for not doing a good job helping the Maharishi 
spread his meditation message.


I'm convinced that Barry and Curtis and Edg did all they could for the 
movement, and did well considering the circumstances - these are some 
smart guys. So, I don't agree at all that these guys were insincere 
doing the Work. ///


That was their job - who cares if they sucked at it? /That's dedication 
to a cause and a true service to help others. It's not important if they 
became enlightened or not - following the path IS enlightenment. //


But, it must be cognitive dissonance on steroids when they read here 
that they are being accused of lying through their teeth for a couple of 
decades, trying to sell a snake-oil religion for a fake yogi, and that 
they gave all the money to him and his relatives over in India. That's 
highly insulting in my book!

/
/If true, they spent two lost decades out of their life living in a 
trance-induction state.

/
>


continues to rant about it every day, religiously, in fact.


>
/It's all about Barry and Curtis./

/According to one FFL informant, they were compelled to bow down on 
their hands and knees inside a golden dome for hours every day; forced 
to work near slave labor in kitchens and hotels; live in a trailer, pod 
or an office building; not allowed to enjoy sexual contact with anyone 
for years; forced to attend religious indoctrination seminars, but often 
confined to their rooms except for an occasional boat ride; and forced 
to attend yoga camps at obscure locations - and not even allowed to go 
across the street to buy an ice cream cone. It's just outrageous!


//Some people do move on - they go to school, get an education and 
graduate, and then they work and raise a family. Some go on to be happy 
chefs and/or artists or successful business owners.


///Others just seem to remain on the same level all their life, with a 
few interspersed failures, bitter, angry and constantly complaining 
about the choices they made in the distant past. /Go figure.

>
/


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


We seem to have some grumpy old men here who actually believe that 
some of the folks take what they call "woo woo" things very 
seriously.  Actually a number of people are just curious and want to 
see if there's anything to them.



On 11/04/2014 09:16 AM, curtisdeltablues@... 
 [FairfieldLife] wrote:



Share,

Did you ever take Ali Najafee's SET seminars in Fairfield? I know
someone who was there when they were going on and it seemed to
strike a nerve doing exactly what you are talking about. There
were massively popular back in the lat 80's. Since then there
have been oodles of people through FF with this message John
Gray, Barbara De Agangelis...

Although I am a fan of some emotional work, many of these courses
had an assumptive cult vibe about their perspectives also.
Assumptions on parade! That combined with taking advantage of
meditator's imaginatively lively trance states.

But this perspective is in direct conflict with Maharishi's
teaching about these kinds of programs and their value to TM
people. It says tat TM is not a complete self development program
and that was not what Maharishi was teaching or selling. He was
selling a solution to ALL problems and reflected the biases of
his tradition which was "don't fix it, transcend it."

Personally I support whatever you find value in for you.
Conceptually I see this as pretty clear evidence that the TM self
development programs don't so what they claimed to do. This
counter-evidence is being ignored and jeri rigged into a new
system of self development that you guys are creating on your own
in FF. (Not that there is anything wrong with that from outside
the movement.)

Participating in these programs was explicitly discouraged by
Maharishi, I never heard him say anything close to the conclusion
you have drawn for yourself. I have no beef with the
accommodations you have made to  make up for the programs'
falures, good on ya sista! But my interest here is in Maharishi's
teaching and in that context your perspective for what people
need is hampered by an absolutist teaching that promises what it
cannot deliver. We didn't hear the message wrong, the message was
wrong. And it discourages people who could use some other kind of
help from getting it. It enables people with real  mental
problems and when they blow up, the movement turns is back on
them as damaged goods, victimizing the victim with the stigma of
not living up to the unrealistic perfectionist standard in the
movement.

Thanks for promoting conversation from different perspectives
  

[FairfieldLife] Yoga!

[cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

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See page 12, especially the "interesting" conclusion!



 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Mat For Sale

[TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Guy Posts 'Yoga Mat For Sale' Ad On Craigslist. This Is Hilarious.

  
 
Guy Posts 'Yoga Mat For Sale' Ad On Craigslist. This Is ...
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

On 5/19/2014 3:26 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The Doors obviously had a different interpretation of this yoga. 
 Carry on.

The Doors - Take It As It Comes (2006 Remastered)
http://youtu.be/MI_RVIl4ZsA

From what I've read, Morrison wrote the lyrics to this song after 
attending a lecture by MMY at the Wilshire Ebel Theater in L.A. We know 
Densmore is a TMer and probably Ray as well - it has not been 
established that Jim learned TM.


We were just a few guys from Texas - I worked for Doug Sahm and got to 
be friends with John Densmore. In the mid-sixties I went to the Westwood 
TM center to be initiated into TM, when Paul Horn told me about a mantra 
from Jerry Jarvis. I decided to take the plunge. According to Bealah 
Smith, I was TMer #214 is the U.S.A. Later, I told Densmore and Ned Wynn 
about TM. I had read Aldus Huxley's 'Doors of Perception' and gave my 
copy to Morrison.


John Densmore wrote in 'Riders on the Storm' (Bloomsbury 1991):

'We went to a meeting in the Wiltshire district and listened to a mellow 
man in a business suit. His name was Jerry Jarvis, and his eyes seemed 
to express a remarkable inner contentment.' Densmore also decided to 
take the plunge. I told Love and he told Dennis who shook Maharishi's 
hand and said 'All of a sudden I felt the presence this guy had!' 
(Gaines, 'Heroes and Villains', Grafton 1986).


Later, I made a mistake when I took Allen Ginsberg to see Maharishi at 
Helen's (Helen Olsen, 'A Hermit in the House', 1971). Maharishi warned 
Allen about LSD and told him that recently a half a dozen hippies had 
come to his room and that they smelled so bad that he told them to go 
into the garden. Allen was outraged. Allen said:


"I said what? You must have been reading the newspapers. He said he 
didn't read newspapers. He insisted that hippies smelled." (Ginsberg, 
'International Times' 26 February 1968).


*Take It As It Comes*
/
//"Time to die//
//
//Takes it easy, baby//
//Take it as it comes//
//Don't move too fast//
//And you want your love to last//
//Oh, you've been movin' much too fast//
//
//Time to walk//
//Time to run//
//Time to aim your arrows//
//At the sun//
//
//Takes it easy, baby//
//Take it as it comes//
//Don't move too fast//
//And you want your love to last//
//Oh, you've been movin' much too fast//
//
//Go real slow//
//You like it more and more//
//Take it as it comes//
//Specialize in havin' fun//
//
//Takes it easy, baby//
//Take it as it comes//
//Don't move too fast//
//And you want your love to last//
//Oh, you've been movin' much too fast//
//Movin' much too fast//
//Movin' much too fast" /


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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

[jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Richard, 

 The Doors obviously had a different interpretation of this yoga.  Carry on.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 On 5/19/2014 2:04 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
 > Take life as it comes.
 >
 The Doors - Take It As It Comes
 http://youtu.be/Vp_tjYszBmQ http://youtu.be/Vp_tjYszBmQ
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

[jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Bhairitu, 

 There's nothing wrong with what your mother said.  She is or was a wise woman, 
whatever the case may be.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 That's what my mother always told me.  But also said, "sometimes you gotta 
take the bull by the horns." :-D 
 
 On 05/19/2014 12:04 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:
 
   Take life as it comes.  Any other questions?

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

On 5/19/2014 2:04 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
> Take life as it comes.
 >
The Doors - Take It As It Comes
http://youtu.be/Vp_tjYszBmQ

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

[Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]]

That's what my mother always told me. But also said, "sometimes you 
gotta take the bull by the horns." :-D


On 05/19/2014 12:04 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:


Take life as it comes.  Any other questions?

[FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

[jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Take life as it comes.  Any other questions?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga with Walpurgis 2 - at Anamay Vedic Resort in the Himalaya

[Michael Jackson]

how can it be run by purushas if there are woman there? Oh, I forgot, they are 
following in Marshy's footsteps, claiming celibacy but then...?

On Fri, 4/4/14, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Yoga with Walpurgis 2 - at Anamay Vedic Resort in the 
Himalaya
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, April 4, 2014, 9:24 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Nice pictures and music from Anamay Ashram in
 the Himalayas run by Purushas.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksO7Nu995s
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga with Walpurgis 2 - at Anamay Vedic Resort in the Himalaya

[nablusoss1008]

Nice pictures and music from Anamay Ashram in the Himalayas run by Purushas.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksO7Nu995s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksO7Nu995s

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Sutra for Divine Hearing

[jr_esq]

It appears that this sutra could refer to knowledge of musical theories and the 
various techniques for embellishing a melody.  This could be the reason why 
many of the TMers are successful musicians.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Pants Not Allowed Here

[jr_esq]

So says a high school principal in Massachusetts.  What about meditation? 

 
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/high-school-outlaws-yoga-pants-and-leggings-173901237.html
 
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/high-school-outlaws-yoga-pants-and-leggings-173901237.html
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[Michael Jackson]

that's actually pretty cool - I bet a ton of folks will use it.

On Tue, 12/17/13, Rick Archer  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 3:27 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 11, 2013 (Today): Chicago's O'Hare
 International, one of the country's busiest and most
 stressful airports, took a decidedly Zen turn today with the opening of a yoga
 room in Terminal 3, adjacent to the airport's indoor
 urban garden. "The yoga room provides a space for yoga
 practice as well as a place to relax or meditate," said
 Rosemarie Andolini, Chicago Department of Aviation
 commissioner. "This is yet another amenity to help make
 the travel experience at O'Hare
 'best-in-class.'" 
 
 O'Hare's yoga room has a sustainable bamboo wood
 floor, floor-to-ceiling mirrors along one wall, exercise
 mats and an area to store personal articles and garments. A
 wall-mounted video monitor plays soothing sounds and
 displays yoga exercise techniques and images of nature. And
 to provide privacy and let in natural light, there are
 frosted windows along one side of the room. 
 
 "The importance of exercise and the opportunity in
 clearing the mind and body during long travel days cannot be
 overstated as it relates to one's health," said
 Brad Jersey, CEO and founder of nLIVEn Health, a company
 that brings sponsored, interactive health care campaigns
 into airports. "We know from our studies that 75
 percent of frequent fliers participate in some workout
 regimen, so this is a perfect complement at
 ORD." 
 
 The yoga room at Chicago's O'Hare airport continues
 a trend begun by San Francisco International Airport in
 January 2012, when it opened the world's first yoga room
 at an airport. Located in the refurbished Terminal 2. Yoga
 rooms can also be found at airports in Dallas, San Francisco
 and Burlington, Vt.   
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[Michael Jackson]

Ha ha ha ha ha! That reminds me of a story about my older sister. Sister is a 
heavy smoker, about two and a half to three packs a day. She also loves to 
travel. Years ago, she and her two best friends were on their way to Europe, 
and this was after smoking had been banned on international flights, so sister 
wanted to get in a good bit of smoking before her flight left. 

I can't remember which airport she was in, but it was a smoking room like you 
describe. This particular smoking room had automatic doors that opened when you 
approached them. Well and good, except these doors were broken, and would only 
work if you were on the inside coming out. If you were outside they wouldn't 
open. 

Sister not only smokes heavily but has a heavy amount of guilt over just being 
alive I guess. When she arrived at the smoking area, she was told the deal with 
the doors, and being there was only one other person in the room, she stood 
outside, looking longingly at the one guy smoking, following his every puff, 
rather than going in herself and having to take the long flight to Europe with 
the guilt of being the last person out of the room hanging over her head. 

Her emotional theory was that if she were the last one out of the room, she 
would be responsible for all subsequent smokers in the airport not being able 
to puff away to their hearts content when they approached the smoking room.

One of her friends drew a picture of her, standing out side the room holding a 
shepherd's crook looking with great regret at the promised land of nicotine 
nirvana. He gave the picture a caption of "Moses Sister." She was not happy 
with her flight, her nicotine fits nor the picture, but I enjoyed it 
tremendously when I saw it and heard the story after they got back from Europe.

On Tue, 12/17/13, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com  
wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 1:27 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   On the other side of the spectrum, there used to be
 a "smoking room" at San Jose (CA) Airport. It was
 actually a clear cube, in the middle of the terminal, where
 people could go in, and let people from the outside, watch
 as 
 the cube filled with smoke. Like a fishbowl. Love it.
 Unfortunately they removed in during a re-mod.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[doctordumbass]

I prefer the Men's Room, at O'Hare, for meditation, but I've got a "wide 
stance". So thanks for the alternative.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[Rick Archer]

 

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf Of steve.sun...@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:10 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

 

  

Rick just eats this stuff up.  Rising sign of the "Age of Enlightenment" sort 
of thing, I guess.

No, just a convenient place to meditate, which I thought people might 
appreciating knowing about. Not everyone, I guess.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[doctordumbass]

Now, coherently:

 On the other side of the spectrum, there used to be a "smoking room" at San 
Jose (CA) Airport. It was actually a clear cube, in the middle of the terminal, 
where people could go in, and let people from the outside, watch, asthe cube 
filled with smoke. Like a fishbowl. Loved it. Unfortunately they removed it 
during a re-mod.


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[doctordumbass]

On the other side of the spectrum, there used to be a "smoking room" at San 
Jose (CA) Airport. It was actually a clear cube, in the middle of the terminal, 
where people could go in, and let people from the outside, watch as 
 the cube filled with smoke. Like a fishbowl. Love it. Unfortunately they 
removed in during a re-mod.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[steve.sundur]

Rick just eats this stuff up.  Rising sign of the "Age of Enlightenment" sort 
of thing, I guess.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[Share Long]

On my return trip to FF, I finally used the Religious Reflections Room at the 
Detroit airport to do my evening program. Certainly enough floor space to do 
yoga asanas, chairs pretty comfy, lighting low and the whole room well away 
from the hustle and bustle of the airport.





On Monday, December 16, 2013 9:27 PM, Rick Archer  wrote:
 
  
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 11, 2013 (Today): Chicago's O'Hare International, 
one of the country's busiest and most stressful airports, took a decidedly Zen 
turn today with the opening of a yoga room in Terminal 3, adjacent to the 
airport's indoor urban garden. "The yoga room provides a space for yoga 
practice as well as a place to relax or meditate," said Rosemarie Andolini, 
Chicago Department of Aviation commissioner. "This is yet another amenity to 
help make the travel experience at O'Hare 'best-in-class.'" 

O'Hare's yoga room has a sustainable bamboo wood floor, floor-to-ceiling 
mirrors along one wall, exercise mats and an area to store personal articles 
and garments. A wall-mounted video monitor plays soothing sounds and displays 
yoga exercise techniques and images of nature. And to provide privacy and let 
in natural light, there are frosted windows along one side of the room. 

"The importance of exercise and the opportunity in clearing the mind and body 
during long travel days cannot be overstated as it relates to one's health," 
said Brad Jersey, CEO and founder of nLIVEn Health, a company that brings 
sponsored, interactive health care campaigns into airports. "We know from our 
studies that 75 percent of frequent fliers participate in some workout regimen, 
so this is a perfect complement at ORD." 

The yoga room at Chicago's O'Hare airport continues a trend begun by San 
Francisco International Airport in January 2012, when it opened the world's 
first yoga room at an airport. Located in the refurbished Terminal 2. Yoga 
rooms can also be found at airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Burlington, 
Vt. 
  

[FairfieldLife] Yoga room at O'Hare

[Rick Archer]

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 11, 2013   
(Today  ): Chicago's O'Hare International, one of the 
country's busiest and most stressful airports, took a decidedly Zen turn today 
  with the opening of a yoga room in Terminal 3, adjacent to 
the airport's indoor urban garden. "The yoga room provides a space for yoga 
practice as well as a place to relax or meditate," said Rosemarie Andolini, 
Chicago Department of Aviation commissioner. "This is yet another amenity to 
help make the travel experience at O'Hare 'best-in-class.'" 

O'Hare's yoga room has a sustainable bamboo wood floor, floor-to-ceiling 
mirrors along one wall, exercise mats and an area to store personal articles 
and garments. A wall-mounted video monitor plays soothing sounds and displays 
yoga exercise techniques and images of nature. And to provide privacy and let 
in natural light, there are frosted windows along one side of the room. 

"The importance of exercise and the opportunity in clearing the mind and body 
during long travel days cannot be overstated as it relates to one's health," 
said Brad Jersey, CEO and founder of nLIVEn Health, a company that brings 
sponsored, interactive health care campaigns into airports. "We know from our 
studies that 75 percent of frequent fliers participate in some workout regimen, 
so this is a perfect complement at ORD." 

The yoga room at Chicago's O'Hare airport continues a trend begun by San 
Francisco International Airport in January 2012, when it opened the world's 
first yoga room at an airport. Located in the refurbished Terminal 2. Yoga 
rooms can also be found at airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Burlington, 
Vt. 

 

   

   

   

      

  

[FairfieldLife] Yoga retreat, game!

[card]

http://gajatristudios.com/

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Sutra, Part 3, verse 37

[John]

"Through that spiritual perception, the yogi acquires the divine faculties of 
hearing, touch, vision, taste and smell.  He can even generate these divine 
emanations by his own will".

BKS Iyengar commented that

"When the limitations of the mind are removed, the yogi contacts the very core 
of his being, and has direct, divine perceptions independent of the sense 
organs.  He is able to hear, feel, see, taste and smell through unlimited 
space."

This sounds like Patanjali is talking about the phenomenon of Remote Viewing.  
Perhaps, this siddhi is due to the physics principles called quantum 
entanglement and superposition of wave functions.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Poses That Improve Your Sex Life

[Richard J. Williams]

This yoga pose is so sexy, it's even in the Kama Sutra.

Garuda Asana, the Eagle Pose. Enjoy!

  
'Yoga Poses That Improve Your Sex Life'
Woman's Day:
http://tinyurl.com/ct9rg7v 

Fitho:
http://www.fitho.in/guide/yoga/poses/

[FairfieldLife] Yoga in Public Schools Is Unconstitutional?

[John]

There are still some people who don't get it here in this country, even those 
who are living in California.

http://news.yahoo.com/doing-yoga-public-school-really-unconstitutional-174210742.html

[FairfieldLife] Yoga and Mental Health study results

[srijau]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Yoga-gets-biggest-science-thumbs-up-yet/Article1-999479.aspx

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com

[Bhairitu]

On 02/28/2012 08:17 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-a
> nd-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html?pagewanted=1
>  and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2>  &_r=2
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7uywfkp

Another ignorant author who thinks that tantra is about sex. No lack of 
these ignoramuses in the world. :-D

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com

[Rick Archer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-a
nd-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html?pagewanted=1
 &_r=2

http://tinyurl.com/7uywfkp

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga Girl

[Ravi Yogi]

No way, you are alive Joey Baby  I just mention you in a previous post 
and out you pop??? Is this a joke???




From: Joe 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 29, 2011 10:36:32 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Yoga Girl

   
Saw this and (somehow) thought of my peeps at FFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-8IPDR4Khc&feature=player_embedded#!


 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Girl

[Joe]

Saw this and (somehow) thought of my peeps at FFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-8IPDR4Khc&feature=player_embedded#!

[FairfieldLife] Yoga of Knowledge

[cardemaister]

AUM tatsaditi shrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniShatsu
brahmavidyAyA.n yogashAstre shrIkR^iShNArjunasa.nvAde
sAN^khyayogo nAma dvitIyo 'dhyAyaH 

AUM tat sat; iti shriimat; bhagavat-gItaasu(?)-upaniSatsu
brahma-vidyaayaam; yoga-shaastre shrii-kRSNa-arjuna-saMvaade
saaMkhya-yogaH; naama dvitiiyaH; adhyaayaH. 

Maharishi's translation:

Thus (iti) in the Upanishad (upaniSatsu -- locative *plural*)
of the glorious (shriimat) Bhagavad-Gita, in the Scie
(vidyaayaam) of the Absolute (brahma) in the Scripture (shaastre)
of Yoga (yoga) in the dialogue (saMvaade) between Lord (shrii)
  Krishna and Arjuna (kRSNa-arjuna) ends (no verb in the original)
the second (dvitiiyaH) chapter (adhyaayaH) entitled (naama [name(d)]):
the Yoga (yogaH) of Knowledge, Sankhya Yoga.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Lotus Fairy

[yifuxero]

http://www.strangeling.com/yogalotusfairy.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga Vs Meditation

[Peter]

I can think of nothing more foul than doing a set of asanas in a hot studio 
next to some meat eating dude as he sweats out the stench of dead cow. Barf 
time!

--- On Sun, 7/25/10, Buck  wrote:

> From: Buck 
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Yoga Vs  Meditation
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 7:36 PM
>  
> "In yoga's case it centers on authenticity. The fight over
> whether it is a spiritual or a physical practice has raged
> virtually since its inception, but now in the United States
> this question has been tinted with issues of competition,
> status and sweat. People who favor the demanding flow of
> Ashtanga yoga, for instance, might scoff at those who
> practice Iyengar yoga, which is slow-moving but stresses
> proper placement of the body in the poses. (Think of boot
> camp versus a classical ballet lesson.) Then again, serious
> meditators — those who revel in stillness and make
> pilgrimages to ashrams in India in search of yoga masters
> — disdain the spandex-clad 20-somethings who dash to
> hot-yoga class to burn off yesterday's cheeseburgers."
> 
> 
> From a different NYTimes Yoga trends article,
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25Yoga-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=2&ref=general&src=me
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[FairfieldLife] Yoga Vs Meditation

[Buck]

 
"In yoga's case it centers on authenticity. The fight over whether it is a 
spiritual or a physical practice has raged virtually since its inception, but 
now in the United States this question has been tinted with issues of 
competition, status and sweat. People who favor the demanding flow of Ashtanga 
yoga, for instance, might scoff at those who practice Iyengar yoga, which is 
slow-moving but stresses proper placement of the body in the poses. (Think of 
boot camp versus a classical ballet lesson.) Then again, serious meditators — 
those who revel in stillness and make pilgrimages to ashrams in India in search 
of yoga masters — disdain the spandex-clad 20-somethings who dash to hot-yoga 
class to burn off yesterday's cheeseburgers."


>From a different NYTimes Yoga trends article,

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25Yoga-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=2&ref=general&src=me

[FairfieldLife] Yoga in America in the 20's

[tartbrain]

Did  a google search on "Bourque Maharishi". Nada. The fullness of emptiness. 
The book appears to be on no ones radar. A big yawn for america and the world 
it may be. 


But I did come across this article on yoga in america in the 20's.
(interesting - though probably a wast of time -- to speculate on the evolution 
of a jiva in america -- reincarnating across various spiritual and counter 
culture movements -- ending up thus far in the TMO - and still moving on. 



Robert Love's 'The Great Oom' unearths the ashram the roared in the '20s
Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 7:26 PM Updated: Wednesday, June 30, 
2010, 7:31 PM
  Evelyn Theiss, The Plain Dealer 

Viking, 392 pp., $28
Most of us probably just assume that yoga came to American popular culture in 
the 1960s, trailing the Beatles and their guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
But in 1997, writer Robert Love and his wife moved into a 1920s-era stone 
cottage in Nyack, N.Y. He found mystical-appearing symbols carved into the 
original facade and began to investigate the property's history.
Turned out the cottage had been part of the first, and biggest, yoga ashram in 
the United States. It thrived in the 1920s and well into the 1930s.
That mysterious compound was run by Pierre Bernard, who drew flocks of wealthy 
and prominent acolytes. Two Vanderbilt daughters were big funders, and other 
old-money types joined, too -- including Frances Payne Bolton, a Clevelander, 
yoga devotee and future congresswoman.
Bernard was born Perry Baker in Leon, Iowa, in 1876. Before he was out of his 
teens, young Perry met Sylvais Hamati, a native of India, and become his 
protege. Hamati taught his student Sanskrit, hatha yoga and techniques for 
meditation.
The Iowan rechristened himself Pierre Bernard and began cultivating the 
charisma that is de rigueur for a guru in need of women, men and money.
He opened a Manhattan studio, attracting police interest in the goings-on -- 
women garbed in leotards and performing goodness-knows-what Tantric practices 
with men. When law-enforcement attention became too keen, Bernard moved his 
center to the country.
An hour away, in more affordable Nyack, he soon put together enough property to 
create a private ashram, prosaically named the Clarkstown Country Club. It 
attracted WASPs, conductor Leopold Stokowski and even a former British spy. 
Actresses and Algonquin writers dropped by, too, including Robert Benchley and 
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
By then, newspaper headline writers were calling Bernard "The Great Oom." 
Throughout the Roaring '20s, stories in magazines such as Town & Country 
enhanced the ashram's credibility.
During a decade known for "anything goes," the ashram -- at least in its early 
years -- promoted yoga, movement, meditation and alternative therapies designed 
to heal body and mind.
Author Love brings prodigious research and deft writing to "The Great Oom," 
opening a window on a long-ago world. Turns out the "New Age" isn't so new -- 
wealthy adventurers seeking exotic paths to meaning, gurus and yoga have long 
been with us.
Fascinating that Bernard seemed, for a while, to be the man with the answers.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga expert: 'It seems idiotic they can patent it'

[eustace10679]

Yoga expert: 'It seems idiotic they can patent it'

Swami Pragyamurti Saraswati argues that Indian government's attempt to create a 
rigid system of yoga misses the point

* The Guardian, Tuesday 8 June 2010

The 64,000 postures form only a tiny part of yoga. Poses are not an end in 
themselves, but a preparation for deeper, more meaningful practices. The word 
yoga means oneness and unity â€" unity with the self. Discover who you are, and 
then that can give you a sense of oneness with others and ultimately the whole 
of creation, and the divine.

Poses are not the definition of yoga, which consists of breathing practices, 
deep relaxation, and meditative practices â€" not just postures. There's a 
whole yoga to do with mantras, another to do with music.

I would definitely give anyone trying to patent any postures a very wide berth. 
They haven't invented anything. The practices and traditions of yoga go back 
thousands of years. At best, we are interpreters of ancient wisdom.

The patenting and filming of specific positions is distressing. Yoga is a huge 
body of knowledge and practice, and you can't patent such a large entity, let 
alone a very small percentage of it.

Nor is it the preserve of India alone. Yes, it It has been nurtured for many 
centuries by the monastic and guru traditions in India, but statues and 
paintings depicting yoga practices have been discovered all over the world. In 
Colombia, there are statues of people sitting in yoga positions, and adopting 
breathing and meditative practices, so yoga is broader than just Indian and it 
seems absolutely idiotic that they can patent it.

In fact, I'm distressed at the way things have developed in recent years. When 
yoga first became popular in the 60s in the western world, it was about an 
expansion of consciousness. We were looking for deeper truth. Those first 
Swamis who travelled to London in the 60s brought us a mixture of techniques to 
help us deepen our understanding - a mixture which included postures, but also 
many other things. But what's happening in yoga now is a retrogressive step. It 
buys into this body obsession, and indeed the body dysmorphia that pervades 
western culture.

Swami Pragyamurti Saraswati has been director of the Satyananda Yoga Centre in 
London for more than 30 years

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/08/yoga-expert-view-india-poses)

[FairfieldLife] Yoga-suutras

[cardemaister]

http://twitter.com/yoga_sutras

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga without tapas?

[Bhairitu]

cardemaister wrote:
> Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause:
>
> naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati |
>
> We think,  without sandhi that would be:
>
> na + atapasvinaH; yogaH sidhyati
>
> Well, tapasvin is:
>
> tapasvin  a. distressed, miserable; devout, pious, doing penance; m. & f. 
> {tapasvinI} an ascetic, a religious man or woman.
>
> So, a-tapasvin prolly is the opposite of tapasvin.
>
> Now, as a substantive that could mean something like "non-ascetic".
> As an adjective it could mean e.g.  'not-distressed', "unmiserable"(?).
>
> Thus, Vyaasa could mean something like: someone who is not an
> ascetic, shall not be successful (sidhyati) in yoga; or:
> yoga without suffering is not possible...

Tantrics are usually householders and not ascetics.  So yoga is possible 
without being an ascetic.  That's probably why tantra emerged.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga without tapas?

[cardemaister]

Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause:

naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati |

We think,  without sandhi that would be:

na + atapasvinaH; yogaH sidhyati

Well, tapasvin is:

tapasvina. distressed, miserable; devout, pious, doing penance; m. & f. 
{tapasvinI} an ascetic, a religious man or woman.

So, a-tapasvin prolly is the opposite of tapasvin.

Now, as a substantive that could mean something like "non-ascetic".
As an adjective it could mean e.g.  'not-distressed', "unmiserable"(?).

Thus, Vyaasa could mean something like: someone who is not an
ascetic, shall not be successful (sidhyati) in yoga; or:
yoga without suffering is not possible...

[FairfieldLife] Yoga in Sanskrit phonetics (draft version), part 1

[cardemaister]

One of the most "irritating" features of Sanskrit, especially for a newbie, is 
the phenomenon called sandhi (saMdhi: sam + dhi).

The root 'dhi' means e.g. 'to put'. The prefix 'sam' means 
'together', and stuff. So, the word 'saMdhi' could be translated
for instance to 'putting together'. 

*In linguistics* sandhi refers to a phenomenon that *might* appear
in the majority of the world's languages. We think one of the
most "Sanskritlike" sandhis in English might be "I'm" for 'I am'.
(We guess the main raison d'etre for that particular sandhi in English
is, that it avoids the sequence of two vowels that can't form
a diphthong in English, namely [i, as the latter component of [ai]] and 
[(reduced?) a], [ai am]?)

In Sanskrit, sandhi is a very common feature. (Actually, there are two
types of sandhi, internal and external. Here we are exclusively 
talking about the latter, which is sandhi between whole words,
not parts of words, which is the internal sandhi.)

The two main categories of *external* sandhi are vowel sandhi 
and consonant sandhi. The easiest case of the latter is that
before a vowel and a *voiced* consonant, voiceless stops (p, T, t, k) change to 
their voiced equivalent (b, D, d, g).

In this "series of articles", perhaps the most "interesting" sandhi
is that of the vowel 'a' at the end of a word, followed by
a word that begins with an 'a', both either short (hrasva, simply
'a') or long (diirgha, best indicated in seven[?] bit ASCII by 
either 'aa' or 'A').

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Vasishtha

[Rick Archer]

"The will of the supreme being cannot be transgressed. It is his will that I
should be like this and the others should be as they are. One cannot fathom
nor measure what has to be. In accordance with the nature of each being,
that which is to be comes to be."

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga trivia

[Vaj]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 3:55 AM, cardemaister wrote:



Ten points and a Parrot Badge for that FFL'er who knows the correct
answer [guessing the preposition:] for:

What is pishaacaavesha(sp?)?  :D



Are you talking about demonic possession? pizAca (demon who loves  
flesh); Aveza (entering)?


Ayudha- ? demonic possession by a war loving demon?

udara- ? demonic possession by the demon of gluttony (lit. "Stomach  
demon")?

[FairfieldLife] Yoga trivia

[cardemaister]

Ten points and a Parrot Badge for that FFL'er who knows the correct
answer [guessing the preposition:] for:

What is pishaacaavesha(sp?)?  :D

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Celebration

[Rick Archer]

From: "Dana Brekke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:45 -0500

 

Dear Yoga Teachers, Students and Friends,

 

On the Spring Equinox this year an idea that has been percolating in my mind
for several years finally bubbled up with so much joyful energy that I need
to share it with my Fairfield family.  I call it Free Spirit Yoga. I haven't
taught yoga since living in San Diego 5 years ago, but have been practicing
on my own, putting together all the aspects of mind/body/spirit healing and
expression that given me relief, healing and joy.  I hope to share a new
form of yoga that will light the fire of love in the hearts, minds and
bodies of those who practice it, opening the door to full bodied prayer, a
devotional hatha yoga practice, that invokes divine assistance for healing
ourselves and our planet. This is putting the truth that is revealed in "The
Secret" into active practice. It is the power of prayer that comes from the
heart. I believe that in healing ourselves, we will heal our planet. Free
Spirit Yoga will give us a place to envision a beautiful life for ourselves
and all sentient beings. It will provide an opportunity for our spirits to
soar, our bodies to heal, and our hearts to celebrate life.

 

My hope is that enough of you will be interested that we can have an
interdisciplinary yoga celebration on the Solstice, June 20th. This is my
hearts desire. I am happy to teach for free and trust that we can create
something beautiful together.  Ultimately I hope to capture the Fairfield
magic in a yoga DVD that will inspire people everywhere. Our first meeting
will be Monday, May 12th at 7:30pm at my house, 201 Highland.

Please RSVP at HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or phone 641-469-5233

 

Nervous, excited, and happy,

 

Dana Brekke

 

PS Please forward this to anyone you think would be interested. The only
requirement is the ability to do sun salutations. Christine Pappas has
volunteered to teach us all how to do sun salutations safely with awareness.
She does a fantastic job at this!


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[FairfieldLife] Yoga Celebration

[Dick Mays]

From: "Dana Brekke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:45 -0500

Dear Yoga Teachers, Students and Friends,

On the Spring Equinox this year an idea that has been percolating in 
my mind for several years finally bubbled up with so much joyful 
energy that I need to share it with my Fairfield family.  I call it 
Free Spirit Yoga. I haven't taught yoga since living in San Diego 5 
years ago, but have been practicing on my own, putting together all 
the aspects of mind/body/spirit healing and expression that given me 
relief, healing and joy.  I hope to share a new form of yoga that 
will light the fire of love in the hearts, minds and bodies of those 
who practice it, opening the door to full bodied prayer, a devotional 
hatha yoga practice, that invokes divine assistance for healing 
ourselves and our planet. This is putting the truth that is revealed 
in "The Secret" into active practice. It is the power of prayer that 
comes from the heart. I believe that in healing ourselves, we will 
heal our planet. Free Spirit Yoga will give us a place to envision a 
beautiful life for ourselves and all sentient beings. It will provide 
an opportunity for our spirits to soar, our bodies to heal, and our 
hearts to celebrate life.


My hope is that enough of you will be interested that we can have an 
interdisciplinary yoga celebration on the Solstice, June 20th. This 
is my hearts desire. I am happy to teach for free and trust that we 
can create something beautiful together.  Ultimately I hope to 
capture the Fairfield magic in a yoga DVD that will inspire people 
everywhere. Our first meeting will be Monday, May 12th at 7:30pm at 
my house, 201 Highland.
Please RSVP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 
phone 641-469-5233


Nervous, excited, and happy,

Dana Brekke

PS Please forward this to anyone you think would be interested. The 
only requirement is the ability to do sun salutations. Christine 
Pappas has volunteered to teach us all how to do sun salutations 
safely with awareness. She does a fantastic job at this!

RE: [FairfieldLife] Yoga at the speed of light

[Rick Archer]

 

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Kirk
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:18 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga at the speed of light

 

Okay see you all again sometime later when I am allowed to continue posting
or I may be banned for a week. Ciao.

 

By my count you’ve only done 32 posts so far this week. The quota is 50, so
you’re fine.


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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga at the speed of light

[Kirk]

That's all really fascinating, but conceptually confused. Most importantly is 
can one make testable predictions as based on the Vedas? 

It's this sort of thinking which produces the sort of mushbrained thinking 
which makes people think persons such as Haeglen are actually scientists.  He 
is not a scientist, and nothing he spouts is science. It is scientific theory. 
About the same thing as discussing romance and politics. Untestable and 
unprovable. 

So someone once was able to pick their nose with their toe. That doesn't mean 
it's a good technique or that it has any implications. 

As based in Uncertainty and the fact that the four fundamental forces of nature 
HAVE NOT been unified through testable means, nothing of any of the theories as 
based on a Unified Field have any ability to hold any water and should not have 
been used to formulate even more specious concepts. All the Unified Field 
nonsense of the TMO has been a house of cards. 

Saying that some Vedic scholars of yesteryear were able to calculate how many 
yojanas to the sun is fine in hindsight. And herein lies the essential problem 
with such hindsight. It is not forward predictive and thus yields no practical 
benefit. 

Okay see you all again sometime later when I am allowed to continue posting or 
I may be banned for a week. Ciao.

[FairfieldLife] Yoga at the speed of light

[Rick Archer]

HYPERLINK
"http://esamskriti.com/html/inside.asp?cat=657&subcat=656&cname=yoga_interna
t"http://esamskriti.com/html/inside.asp?cat=657&subcat=656&cname=yoga_intern
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ional

  Yoga at the speed of Light, - By Linda Johnsen, Courtesy & copyright

Yoga International 

It is amazing how much Western science has taught us. Today, for

example, kids in grammar school learn that the sun is 93 million miles from

the earth and that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per hours. Yoga may

teach us about our Higher Self, but it can't supply this kind of information

about physics or astronomy.

 

 Or can it?

 

 Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University recently called my

attention to a remarkable statement by Sayana, a fourteenth century Indian

scholar. In his commentary on a hymn in the Rig Veda, the oldest and perhaps

most mystical text ever composed in India, Sayana has this to say: "With

deep respect, I bow to the sun, who travels 2,202 yojanas in half a

nimesha."

 

 A yojana is about nine American miles; a nimesha is 16/75 of a second.

Mathematically challenged readers, get out your calculators!

 

 2,202 yojanas x 9 miles x 75 - 8 nimeshas = 185,794 m.p.s.

 

 Basically, Sayana is saying that sunlight travels at 186,000 miles per

second! How could a Vedic scholar who died in 1387 A.D. have known the

correct figure for the speed of light? If this was just a wild guess it's

the most amazing coincidence in the history of science!

 

 The yoga tradition is full of such coincidences. Take for instance the

mala many yoga students wear around their neck. Since these rosaries are

used to keep track of the number of mantras a person is repeating, students

often ask why they have 108 beads instead of 100. Part of the reason is that

the mala represent the ecliptic, the path of the sun and moon across the

sky. Yogis divide the ecliptic into 27 equal sections called nakshatras, and

each of these into four equal sectors called padas, or "steps," marking the

108 steps that the sun and moon take through heaven.

 

 Each is associated with a particular blessing force, with which you

align yourself as you turn the beads.

 

 Traditionally, yoga students stop at the 109th "guru bead," flip the

mala around in their hand, and continue reciting their mantra as they move

backward through the beads. The guru bead represents the summer and winter

solstices, when the sun appears to stop in its course and reverse

directions. In the yoga tradition we learn that we're deeply interconnected

with all of nature. Using a mala is a symbolic way of connecting ourselves

with the cosmic cycles governing our universe.

 

 But Professor Kak points out yet another coincidence: The distance

between the earth and the sun is approximately 108 times the sun's diameter.

The diameter of the sun is about 108 times the earth's diameter. And the

distance between the earth and the moon is 108 times the moon's diameter.

 

 Could this be the reason the ancient sages considered 108 such a

sacred number? If the microcosm (us) mirrors the macrocosm (the solar

system), then maybe you could say there are 108 steps between our ordinary

human awareness and the divine light at the center of our being. Each time

we chant another mantra as our mala beads slip through our fingers, we are

taking another step toward our own inner sun.

 

 As we read through ancient Indian texts, we find so much the sages of

antiquity could not possibly have known-but did. While our European and

Middle Eastern ancestors claimed that the universe was created about 6,000

years ago, the yogis have always maintained that our present cosmos is

billions of years old, and that it's just one of many such universes which

have arisen and dissolved in the vastness of eternity.

 

 In fact the Puranas, encyclopedias of yogic lore thousands of years

old, describe the birth of our solar system out of a "milk ocean," the Milky

Way. Through the will of the Creator, they tell us, a vortex shaped like a

lotus arose from the navel of eternity. It was called Hiranya Garbha, the

shining womb. It gradually coalesced into our world, but will perish some

day billions of years hence when the sun expands to many times it present

size, swallowing all life on earth. In the end, the Puranas say, the ashes

of the earth will be blown into space by the cosmic wind. Today we known

this is a scientifically accurate, if poetic, description of the fate of our

planet.

 

 The Surya Siddhanta is the oldest surviving astronomical text in the

Indian tradition. Some Western scholars date it to perhaps the fifth or

sixth centuries A.D., though the next itself claims to represent a tradition

much, much older. It explains that the earth is shaped like a ball, and

states that at the very opposite side of the planet from India is a great

city where the sun is rising at the same time it sets in India. In t

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Vasishta

[Rick Archer]

>From a friend:

Everyone is asking which edition and translation of the Yoga Vasishta  
they should be reading. I have a dozen different versions here with  
me and the one that most find most accessible is published by SUNY  
Press and translated by Swami Venkatesananda.

go to www.sunypress.edu and in the search option type in The Concise  
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha or Vasistha's Yoga.  The concise one is a shorter  
version and the other is more complete.

Have fun and be prepared to be transformed.

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[FairfieldLife] Yoga tested as back pain therapy

[rama krishna]

Millions of UK people suffer from chronic low back pain, and existing 
treatments have only a limited effect. A team of academics, yoga teachers and 
practitioners have joined forces to find out if a 12-week course of yoga can 
make a difference. The Arthritis Research Campaign-backed project will assess 
moves from the two most popular types of yoga.   These are lyengar yoga and 
hatha yoga, favoured by the British Wheel of Yoga.   More than 260 people 
between the ages of 18 and 65 who have had back pain in the past 18 months will 
be recruited for the trial. Recent, small studies in the US have shown that 
yoga can be helpful for back pain sufferers. But David Torgerson, director of 
the University of York Clinical trials Unit, and Jennifer Klaber Moffett, 
deputy director of the Institute of Rehabilitation at the University of Hull, 
believe a bigger study is needed to unequivocally establish the benefits. 
Professor Torgerson said: "Yoga offers a combination of physical exercise
 with mental focus that may make it a suitable therapy for the treatment of low 
back pain. "If the trial shows yoga to be effective then this low-cost 
treatment will have a considerable impact in the quality of life of patients 
with back pain."   Yoga develops flexibility and muscular endurance by allowing 
the muscles to be stretched and strengthened. Patients will be recruited from 
GP surgeries from September and the 12-week classes, to be held in north and 
central London, York, Manchester and Cornwall, will begin in November. The 
classes will be run by 10 experienced yoga teachers who have all received 
specialist training. Half the participants will take part in yoga classes, and 
the other half will receive the usual care. They will be assessed at the end of 
the classes, then six months and a year later to see if there are any 
longer-term benefits. The yoga classes will be carefully structured for people 
who are complete novices and will not involve any difficult poses.
 They will be graduated over the 12-week period, starting off gently and 
becoming more demanding, with a combination of stretches, bends, lying sitting, 
standing and relaxing poses. Patients will also be encouraged to practise daily 
at home. Anna Semlyen, a yoga teacher who is helping to run the classes, said: 
"Regular yoga increases the benefits, and we would hope that at the end of the 
12 weeks people would carry on." 

  
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[FairfieldLife] Yoga May [!] Help Treat Depression, Anxiety Disorders

[Eustace]

Yoga May Help Treat Depression, Anxiety Disorders

By E.J. Mundell
HealthDay Reporter Thu Jun 7, 11:46 PM ET

THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Yoga's postures, controlled
breathing and meditation may work together to help ease brains plagued
by anxiety or depression, a new study shows.

Brain scans of yoga practitioners showed a healthy boost in levels of
the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) immediately after a
one-hour yoga session. Low brain levels of GABA are associated with
anxiety and depression, the researchers said.

"I am quite sure that this is the first study that's shown that
there's a real, measurable change in a major neurotransmitter with a
behavioral intervention such as yoga," said lead researcher Dr. Chris
Streeter, assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at the
Boston University School of Medicine.

She believes yoga could prove a useful tool to help people battling
depression and anxiety disorders. "We're not advocating that they
chuck their medication, but I would advise that they could use it as
an adjunct and see how they are doing," Streeter said.

Her team published its findings in the May issue of the Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

In the study, the Boston researchers used high-tech magnetic resonance
spectroscopic imaging to gauge levels of GABA in the brains of eight
long-time yoga practitioners and 11 non-practitioners. The
participants were healthy, and none was diagnosed with a major
psychiatric condition.

Brain scans were taken before the beginning of the experiment. Then,
the yoga group was asked to engage in the meditative practice for 60
minutes, while the non-yoga group simply read. The researchers then
re-scanned each participant's brain, looking specifically at GABA levels.

"We showed a 27 percent increase in the brain GABA levels of those
doing yoga -- a really significant increase," Streeter said. No such
change was noted in the non-practitioners who had just read.

She said the style or school of yoga practiced didn't seem to matter.
"We had hatha, ashtanga, bikram, vinyasa, and kripalu" practitioners
included in the yoga group, Streeter said, "and many had been trained
in several different schools."

According to Streeter, "this all gives us one of the mechanisms by
which yoga may be having a beneficial effect. There could be other
mechanisms."

But another expert pointed to what he considered flaws in the research.

Zindel Segal, chairman of psychotherapy and a professor of psychology
and psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has for years studied the
use of behavioral interventions to alleviate psychological woes.

He said the Boston researchers were to be commended for using brain
scan imaging technologies to investigate the effectiveness of these
techniques. But he questioned why the yoga group was simply compared
to a sedentary reading group and not to another movement-based group.

"Exercise itself may have some effects on GABA, so I think in this
study, you'd really want that comparison," he said. Including such a
control group would make it clear that it was yoga and not just an
hour of physical exertion that was responsible for the brain changes.

He also pointed out that all of the people in the study were mentally
healthy, and clinical depression and anxiety disorders involve more
than the "daily fluctuations in stress and tension" that healthy
individuals are prone to.

"We know that yoga can have a profound effect" on smoothing out life's
daily ups and downs, Segal said. "But so does working out on a
Stairmaster for an hour."

Segal also questioned the role of GABA in depression. While it may
play a role in anxiety disorders, "GABA is not one of the main
neurotransmitters that seems to be a part of the depression story," he
said. Other neurochemicals -- most notably serotonin -- play much
bigger roles in the disorder, he said.

None of this means that the study's findings are without merit, Segal
said. "In fact," he said, "we have a program called 'mindfulness-based
cognitive therapy,' where we do use yoga, as well as mindfulness
meditation," as therapeutic tools. Streeter's findings "suggest the
need for more study of these practices," he said.

Streeter agreed that her study is probably just a beginning.

"I think what's important about this study is that it shows that by
using really cutting-edge neuroimaging technology, we can measure real
changes in the brain with behavioral interventions -- changes that are
similar to those that we see with pharmacologic treatments," she said.

Would other mind-body practices -- Tai Chi, for example -- produce
similar effects?

"I think that's very possible," Streeter said. "I suspect that all
roads lead up the mountain."

[FairfieldLife] yoga music from california

[george_deforest]

billed as Enlightening Yoga Music:

"Dance of the Siddhars" by Turiya Nada

http://www.myspace.com/turiyanada 

[FairfieldLife] Yoga at Home--Indian Comic Book

[authfriend]

Very sweet...

"The Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz, Mumbai is
unique in catering mainly to middle-class
Indians who usually have a family and face
the pressures of urban life. This 1997 comic
book, produced by the institute in the style
of popular indian comics of the period,
captures the essence of 'householder yoga',
giving an idea of how powerful spiritual
practices can shape the ethos of an 'ideal'
Indian family."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/avisolo/sets/72157594573265102/

http://tinyurl.com/3bux66

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[FairfieldLife] Yoga, Meditation and the Voice of God

[Robert Gimbel]

INTERVIEW
  Yoga, Meditation and the Voice of God: An Interview with Author and Spiritual 
Teacher Dr Susan Shumsky  Written by Ambrose Musiyiwa
Published December 05, 2006
 
 Dr Susan Shumsky is a healer, counselor, prayer therapist, teacher and an 
author. For over three decades, she has been teaching meditation, 
self-development, and intuition to students in the United States, Canada, 
Europe, and the Far East. She received a doctorate in Divinity from the 
Teaching of Intuitional Metaphysics in San Diego, and has written several books 
on meditation, prayer, and spiritual healing. Her books include Divine 
Revelation, Exploring Meditation, Exploring Chakras, Exploring Auras, and 
Miracle Prayer.

Dr Susan Shumsky spoke about her experiences.

How did it all begin? What motivated you?

I have been practicing spiritual disciplines for 40 years. I spent 22 years in 
the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation and 
guru of the Beatles and Deepak Chopra. I was on Maharishi's personal staff for 
seven years. I was totally immersed in meditation.

When I lived in the ashram, I used to meditate up to 20 hours a day. I would 
disappear into my room and not appear for up to eight weeks at a time. I 
observed silence and did not utter a sound for up to four months at a time. I 
fasted for up to two months at a time. And I observed total celibacy for 
decades.

After spending 22 years with my eyes closed, I woke up and realized that 
something was missing from my spiritual experience.

What?

I had been practicing yoga — the word "yoga" literally means divine union or 
integration, meaning union of individual Spirit with universal Spirit — and I 
was experiencing the end-all be-all experience of yoga, satchitananda, in 
meditation on a daily basis. This was an amazing experience of what I call the 
"impersonal God." But I was longing for the experience of the "personal God."

How did you resolve this conflict?

Happily, I discovered a way to listen to the "still small voice" within — how 
to hear the voice of God and how to test and trust whether the message is the 
real thing. Also, I learned how to help others to have this profound inner 
connection.

Once I realized that this was possible, and that I could ask my higher self 
(God within) any question and receive divine love, healing, wisdom, and 
inspiration from within myself, I had finally come home to God. Never was I 
alone again.

What happened next? What did you do next?

I sold my house, bought a trailer, and began travelling and teaching classes to 
help others have this profound experience. It did not take long before I 
realized that I would have to write a book to have any credibility whatsoever. 
So I wrote my first book, Divine Revelation, quite late in my life, in 1990, 
and then in 1996 it was published by Simon & Schuster. This book is about how 
to listen to the voice of God within, and how to distinguish and discern 
between the true voice of Spirit and other voices in your mind.

The next four books came soon after that: Exploring Meditation, which is a 
great introduction to meditation, yoga, and East Indian philosophy.  My 
publisher asked me to write Exploring Chakras, which I researched by studying 
the ancient scriptures of India and which was reviewed as the "penultimate book 
about the chakras." My publisher then asked me to write Exploring Auras, which 
is about healing and cleansing the human energy field, and which has dozens of 
powerful healing prayers and affirmations to heal anomalies in the auric field.

What is Miracle Prayer about?

My latest book Miracle Prayer: Nine Steps to Creating Prayers that Get Results 
teaches Scientific Prayer, otherwise known as affirmative prayer or spiritual 
mind treatment, the method of prayer taught in Unity and Religious Science and 
other New Thought churches. I wrote this book at the same time that I wrote 
Divine Revelation, way back in the early 1990s, but it was not published until 
now.

It can help you understand how you have created your own destiny through your 
thoughts, words, and deeds, and how you can transform your life. It helps you 
discover mental laws that you have created and how to overcome those mental 
laws through the Law of Grace. Also, it includes specific prayers and 
affirmations that you can use to fulfill your aspirations. One chapter is 
filled with inspiring stories of people who have used these prayer methods to 
create miracles in their lives.

How long did it take you to write it?

My books usually take about one year to write. This was no exception. Miracle 
Prayer was published by Celestial Arts (Berkeley, California), a division of 
TenSpeed Press. The book came out in 2006. It was also picked up by the One 
Spirit book club.

Which aspects of the work that you put into the book did you find most 
difficult? And which did you enjoy most?

The aspect that I find most difficult is finding a way to promote this book

[FairfieldLife] Yoga with Christine Pappas at the Rec Center in Fairfield

[Christine]

Christine Pappas is teaching a Basic Hatha Yoga class 12-1 p.m., 
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at the Roosevelt Community Recreation 
Center, 1000 W. Burlington, Fairfield, for $3.50 per class. This class 
introduces the fundamentals of yoga and is open to everyone. Develop 
your core strength, and increase flexibility, strength & balance!

Feel free to drop-in to try a class, and please bring a yoga mat if
you have one!

For more information, call Christine at 641-472-0529.

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Christine Pappas is a Registered Yoga Teacher (R.Y.T.) with the 
National Yoga Alliance. She completed a 475-hour Hatha Yoga teacher 
training with Barbara Benagh at The Yoga Studio in Boston, MA, and also
completed a Prenatal Yoga teacher training. Christine taught Hatha Yoga
and Prenatal Yoga in the Boston area prior to moving to Fairfield, IA,
recently with her husband and daughter.






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[FairfieldLife] Yoga Classes at the Rec Center

[Christine]

The Roosevelt Community Recreation Center in Fairfield, IA, is now 
offering a Basic Hatha Yoga class at lunchtime 3 days a week for 
$3.50 per class.  (Monthly rates are also available.)

Monday, Wednesday & Fridays -- Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Feel free to drop-in and try a class, and please bring a yoga mat if 
you have one!

For more information, call Christine Pappas at 472-0529. 

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emphasis on breath and body awareness. Christine studied with 
Barbara Benagh at The Yoga Studio in Boston, MA, and completed her 
Hatha Yoga teacher training during her pregnancy. She taught 
prenatal yoga in the Boston area prior to moving to Fairfield, IA, 
with her husband and daughter. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with 
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[FairfieldLife] 'Yoga- Catching on in the U.S. Military'

[Robert Gimbel]

  By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago PENSACOLA, Fla. - When Marine Lt. Alan Zarracina finally did the splits after months of struggling with the difficult pose in yoga class, the limber women around him applauded.    Zarracina, a 24-year-old Naval Academy graduate and flight student, admits he would have a hard time explaining the scene to other Marines.  Each class ends with a chant for peace. Then, instructor Nancy La Nasa hands students incense sticks as a gift for their 90 minutes of back bends, shoulder stands and other challenging positions.  Zarracina has tried to drag some of his military friends to class, but they make fun of him. "It's not necessarily considered masculine," he said.  Still, the popular classes, based on ancient Hindu practices of meditation through controlled breathing, balancing and
 stretching, are catching on in military circles as a way to improve flexibility, balance and concentration. A former Navy SEAL told Zarracina about the class.  The August edition of Fit Yoga, the nation's second-largest yoga magazine with a circulation of 100,000, features a photo of two Naval aviators doing yoga poses in full combat gear aboard an aircraft carrier.  "At first it seemed a little shocking — soldiers practicing such a peaceful art," writes editor Rita Trieger.  Upon closer inspection, she said, she noticed "a sense of inner calm" on the aviators' faces.  "War is hell, and if yoga can help them find a little solace, that's good," said Trieger, a longtime New York yoga instructor.  Retired Adm. Tom Steffens, who spent 34 years as a Navy SEAL and served as the director of the elite corps' training, regularly practices yoga at his home in Norfolk, Va.  "Once in a while I'll sit in class, and
 everyone is a 20-something young lady with a 10-inch waist and here I am this old guy," he joked.  Steffens, who said the stretching helped him eliminate the stiffness of a biceps injury after surgery, said the benefits of regular practice can be enormous.  "The yoga cured all kinds of back pains," he said. "Being a SEAL, you beat up your body."  Yoga breathing exercises can help SEALs with their diving, and learning to control the body by remaining in unusual positions can help members stay in confined spaces for long periods, he said.  "The ability to stay focused on something, whether on breathing or on the yoga practice, and not be drawn off course, that has a lot of connection to the military," he said. "In our SEAL basic training, there are many things that are yoga-like in nature."  Zarracina, the Marine, said yoga has helped him improve his posture and become more comfortable while flying.  "Sitting
 in an airplane for two hours with a harness pulling on you, you will feel a hot spot around your back," he said.  But he said mastering difficult stretches like the splits wasn't easy despite being in top physical condition.   "For the first two weeks, I didn't like (yoga) because it was painful," he said. At Marine training in Quantico, Va., "we did hikes and field training. Yoga taps into those core muscles that people don't really use."   At the Army's Camp Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base outside Pensacola, Army Ranger candidates go through their final and most difficult stage in their grueling training regimen. Capt. Jeremiah Cordovano, a Rudder instructor, said that yoga isn't a part of Ranger training but that some use it to build flexibility.   "It's still something that is sort of catching on, but a lot of guys have done it," he said. "I have done it quite a few times. A friend introduced me to it and I was surprised. At first I was just
 smiling, but after five or 10 minutes you really start to work out your muscles and stuff."   But the peaceful meditation techniques and chanting taught in yoga classes don't necessarily transfer to the combat zone, Cordovano said.   "I spent 14 months in    Iraq, and I didn't see anybody doing yoga while I was over there," he said. 
	
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[FairfieldLife] Yoga, Chi Kung, Huna, Reiki ~~ Comparisons and Contrasts

[Dharma Mitra]

Yoga, Chi Kung, Huna, Reiki and other shamanistic practices for attaining liberation, cultivating our subtler realms, our human essence.
 
Do you have any comparison and contrast charts or other materials that compare and contrast any of these practices with another in the realms of:
 
Psychology
 
Cosmology
 
Physiology
 
Brain
 
Mind
 Individual Mind
 Cosmic Mind
 
Intuitional Practices
 
 
This would be precious to learn.  If you have a partial comparison it can be added to a larger accumulation, I will share results with everyone.
 
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What is Tantra?  The process of transforming animality or latent divinity into the Supreme Divinity is known as Tantra.  The spiritual practice which liberates the aspirant from dullness or animality and expands one's self is Tantrik practice (sa'dhana').  So, there cannot be any spiritual practice without Tantra.  Spiritual practice means a practice for expansion, and this expansion is nothing but a 
liberation from the bondage of all sorts of dullness.  Irrespective of caste, creed or religion, one who aspires for spiritual expansion, or does something concrete, is a Tantrika.  Tantra in itself is neither a religion nor an "ism".  It is the 
fundamental science of spirituality.
 
There is a common desire in each and every human mind, and that desire differentiates a human from an animal, a human from a plant.  What is that difference?  It wants to expand 
.  Secondly, it wants to become one with the Cosmic Consciousness.  Thirdly, it wants to do something noble; and fourthly, it wants peace, supreme peace, undisturbed peace. These are the four special qualifications of human beings.  So Yoga is the path of progress, the path of development for each and every human being.  In individual life we should practice yoga, and in collective life we should encourage others to practice yoga.  It is the panacea of all human ailments, in the physical realm, in the psychic realm and also in the spiritual realm. 

 
Of all that anyone leading or teaching has to convey, the most valuable thing to cultivate and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. 
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[FairfieldLife] "Yoga Laugh"

[Rick Archer]

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[FairfieldLife] Yoga meets Tennessee

[bbrigante]

My new yoga teacher reminded me profoundly of Julie McCoy from "The 
Love Boat." She wore a pink leotard and I'm pretty certain was also 
the grand mistress of Cardio-Burn Stepping. She bounded up to me, 
placed her nose an inch from mine and demanded, "What's y'all's 
name?" with such friendly enthusiasm it made me wish I had more 
names. Class began only after Julie had set her Kenny Chesney CD to 
the proper volume. 

"Take yer PLAY-sez!" she hollered.

Julie, I soon learned, had an accent that favored four-syllable 
commands with the emphasis on the third syllable.

"Stretch yer HAM-strings!"

"Grab yer ANK-ulls!"

"Push it HARD-er!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18funny_humor.html

"Over the next hour, Julie proceeded to do everything - I'm not sure 
how to say this politely - dead wrong. When she wasn't coercing 
stiff middle-aged beginners into weak-necked unsupported headstands 
("You can DO it!"), she was encouraging us to compete against one 
another - the ultimate yoga sin. ("Stretch like BETH does!") I 
wanted to beg the other students to please not imitate Beth (who 
clearly had the flexibility of a cheerleader) as I winced and waited 
to hear the banjo-string-snapping sounds of Dixie tendons popping 
all around me. 

At last it was over, and Julie led us into a period of quiet 
meditation, where we were to lie on our backs, letting our bodies 
absorb the benefits of our practice. She changed the music over to a 
porno soundtrack and turned up the volume. "Shut yer eyes," she 
said. "Look for yer CHAK-ras! That'll be them bright-colored LIGHTS 
in yer soul! You gotta sur-REN-der to the MO-ment!" Then, the oddest 
command of the day: "Work them BOOBS, y'all!"






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts

[Peter]

Pretty hilarious site. Good spoof of the "limited"
mentality of many fundamentalists.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts

[Vaj]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Rick Archer wrote:

> I think that whole site is a spoof.

It is, but still damn accurate. Take it from someone who occasionally 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts

[Rick Archer]

on 8/10/05 7:11 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> On Aug 10, 2005, at 8:01 AM, anonymousff wrote:
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>> http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0303/yoga.html
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> That would be hilarious if it wasn't so scary.

I think that whole site is a spoof.





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts

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On Aug 10, 2005, at 8:01 AM, anonymousff wrote:

> http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0303/yoga.html
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That would be hilarious if it wasn't so scary.



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[FairfieldLife] Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts

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http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0303/yoga.html






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[FairfieldLife] Yoga copyrights

[bbrigante]

http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GG02Df02.html




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[FairfieldLife] Yoga sutras

[Rick Archer]

Title: Yoga sutras





Sent by a friend:

In the Yoga Sutras of Maharshi Patanjali is a clear instruction to the aspirant on how to handle negative situations and negativity in general, both inside and out while on the path to enlightenment. The instruction was given to me by my Guru a over 2 decades ago and I have passed it along to some of you occasionally during readings when you are going through challenging cycles and transits.  It is deceptively simple but like all things subtle, it is remarkably effective. It takes a bit of practice to get the hang of it because it is a bit more than just the power of positive thinking.  What is developed as a result of doing it, is the ability to discriminate more finely between what is real and what is not real and it therefore becomes actually not only a tool for making life’s road easier but at the same time and technique for gaining further enlightenment.  The reason it does this is because in order for it to work you have to think the exact opposite thought, not just a positive thought.

The sloka is

 "vitarkabadhane pratipaksabhavanam" 

When a mind is disturbed by negative thoughts, constantly ponder over the opposite

-yoga Sutras – Maharshi Patanjali



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga mag article on King Tony, TM

[Rick Archer]

on 6/5/05 5:21 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Transcendental_Meditation/message/607

Can you post a link to the article, because you have to join this group to
see the above link?





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[FairfieldLife] Yoga mag article on King Tony, TM

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Transcendental_Meditation/message/607




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[FairfieldLife] Yoga-suutra of the day?

[cardemaister]

II 41

sattva-shuddhi-saumanasyaikaagryendriya(yikes!)
-jayaatma-darshana-yogyatvaani ca

Without sandhi:

sattva-shuddhi-saumanasya; ekaagrya; indriya-jaya; 
aatma-darshana; yogyatvaani; ca







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[FairfieldLife] Yoga-suutra of the Day

[cardemaister]

IV 32

 tataH kRtArthAnAM pariNAma-krama-
samAptir guNAnAm

tataH   by that; therefore
kRtArthAnAm...guNAnAm*  of the guNas having
   fulfilled their purpose 
pariNAma-  (of) the change(s)
krama-  process
samAptiH   the end

*) "done-purpose-of... guNas-of"





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